Product Description
Hard To Find Actual 1973 Japanese First Pressing! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 24-Page Illustrated Booklet, 20-Page Lyric Booklet, Original Apple Black Inner Sleeve. The Record Has “Ringo” Picture Labels.
Easily the best album ever released by Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr! It is also very notable for the guest appearances and contributions from his old band mates John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
I’m The Greatest
Hold On
Photograph
Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond)
You’re Sixteen
Side 2:
Oh My My
Step Lightly
Six O’Clock
Devil Woman
You And Me (Babe)
AMG –
With 'Ringo', Ringo Starr finally put his solo career in gear in 1973, after serving notice with back-to-back Top Ten singles in 1971 and 1972 that he had more to offer than his eccentric first two solo albums. Ringo was a big-budget pop album produced by Richard Perry and featuring Ringo's former Beatles bandmates as songwriters, singers, and instrumentalists. On no single track did all four appear, though George Harrison played the guitars on the John Lennon-penned leadoff track "I'm the Greatest," with Lennon playing piano and singing harmony. But it wasn't only the guests who made 'Ringo' a success: Ringo advanced his own cause by co-writing two of the album's Top Ten singles, the number one "Photograph" and "Oh My My." The album's biggest hit was a second chart-topper, Ringo's cover of the old Johnny Burnette hit "You're Sixteen." Songs like "Have You Seen My Baby," a Randy Newman song with guitar by Marc Bolan, and Ringo and Vini Poncia's "Devil Woman" were just as good as the hits. Ringo's best and most consistent new studio album, 'Ringo' represented both the drummer/singer's most dramatic comeback and his commercial peak." 4 ½ stars